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Comment author: HungryHobo 10 June 2015 10:27:53AM 3 points [-]

It's not the political definition that anyone here is using. It's the meaningful one related to behavior.

Talking about the "political definition" is like turning up to a group of electrical engineers talking about "positive" charges and complaining that electrically charged things can give you shocks hence aren't very "positive"(political definition).

Comment author: ChristianKl 10 June 2015 01:06:46PM *  1 point [-]

It's not the political definition that anyone here is using. It's the meaningful one related to behavior.

There not a single one but multiple different ones that you can pick that relate to behavior. That's why when having a discussion like this it makes sense to explicitly define terms.

Comment author: DanArmak 10 June 2015 12:37:05PM *  1 point [-]

like turning up to a group of electrical engineers talking about "positive" charges and complaining that electrically charged things can give you shocks hence aren't very "positive"(political definition).

This reminds me that people do complain about a related issue.